When was the last time your town's police department sat down to write poetry? Or your city tackled a budget crisis through participatory theater? Unlikely strategies for community change, perhaps, but towns and cities are taking on nearly every imaginable issue with the help of community-based arts. On this recording you'll find out how music, theater, photography, dance and more can help to engage citizens and start conversations, opening the door to change.
Featuring Barbara Schaffer Bacon, Co-Director of Animating Democracy, a program of Americans for the Arts and Marty Pottenger, Artist, Founder and Executive Director of Terra Motto Inc. and Art At Work.
Call recorded on March 15, 2012. Notes available online at bit.ly/A0xoUv.
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